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But the discovery of an Earth-like planet orbiting a white dwarf—the stage of stellar evolution that follows a red giant—provides evidence that survival is a possibility, researchers reported last week in Nature Astronomy.
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Christie Wilcox, science.org, 30 Sep. 2024
Such white dwarf stars are the hot, glowing stellar cores left behind when dying sunlike stars blow off their outer layers.
—Tom Metcalfe, Scientific American, 31 Oct. 2024
Scientists are hoping to study the nova to discover what happens when the material is blasted from the white dwarf and distributed into neighboring galaxies, Boyd said.
—Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 31 Oct. 2024
Hounsell said white dwarf stars aren't much larger in size than planet Earth.
—John Tufts, The Indianapolis Star, 6 Sep. 2024
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Christie Wilcox, science.org, 30 Sep. 2024
Such white dwarf stars are the hot, glowing stellar cores left behind when dying sunlike stars blow off their outer layers.
—Tom Metcalfe, Scientific American, 31 Oct. 2024
Scientists are hoping to study the nova to discover what happens when the material is blasted from the white dwarf and distributed into neighboring galaxies, Boyd said.
—Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 31 Oct. 2024
Hounsell said white dwarf stars aren't much larger in size than planet Earth.
—John Tufts, The Indianapolis Star, 6 Sep. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for white dwarf
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The collisions of compact astrophysical objects such as black holes and neutron stars emit strong gravitational waves.Gaurav Khanna, Discover Magazine, 27 May 2024
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The most obvious candidate, the team says, is a pulsar – a type of neutron star that produces beams of electromagnetic radiation from its poles.Michael Irving, New Atlas, 29 Nov. 2024
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An eye-opening new Hubble image shows the binary star system R Aquarii having a cosmic freakout.Amanda Kooser, Forbes, 17 Oct. 2024
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There are many theories of gravity out there, and many interpretations of wide binary star data.Big Think, Big Think, 24 June 2024
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So far, the guiding lights to find the comet have been the bright planet Venus and the bright red star Arcturus.Jamie Carter, Forbes, 27 Oct. 2024
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More specifically, the radiant is north of Betelgeuse, the bright, red star that represents Orion’s right shoulder.Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Oct. 2024
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This region, about 8,000 light-years from Earth, is located adjacent to the famous explosive variable star Eta Carinae, which lies just outside the field of view toward the upper right.Alan Taylor, The Atlantic, 8 Dec. 2024
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Stars that change in brightness, known as variable stars, get brighter and dimmer; supernovas burst into view and then gradually fade away; and thousands of objects too faint to see with the unaided eye, like asteroids, move steadily across the sky.Dan Falk, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 June 2024
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This galactic speed demon appears to have a red dwarf star smaller and dimmer than our sun.Jonathan O'Callaghan, Scientific American, 30 Oct. 2024
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The smallest red dwarfs, with masses barely bigger than a tenth of the mass of the Sun, can burn for trillions of years.Paul Sutter, Ars Technica, 16 Apr. 2024
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But the other system isn’t a perfect mirror of our Solar System—a brown dwarf also orbiting the star may have played a part in the Earth-like planet’s survival, experts tell The New York Times.Christie Wilcox, science.org, 30 Sep. 2024
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Some theories say brown dwarf pairs were seeded from the materials that surround a forming star.Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 16 Oct. 2024
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Leave tradition behind and commit to a modern aesthetic with these pretty hanging sphere lights that look like giant stars.Hannah Rice, Rolling Stone, 27 Nov. 2024
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Nunes checks the box as the giant star, and there is an argument for Pena to come up to 145 to challenge her.Brian Mazique, Forbes, 9 Oct. 2024
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However, Shotton also highlighted a study by Charles Spence that attempts to isolate the effort variable.Roger Dooley, Forbes, 12 Dec. 2024
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This leaves plenty of time for variables, for temperature fluctuations, and for off flavors to seep into the coffee from the fridge.Matthew Korfhage, WIRED, 6 Dec. 2024
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“White dwarf.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/white%20dwarf. Accessed 18 Dec. 2024.
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